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I'm so sorry about your mom. Hoping for good recovery for her, even though you are prepared for it being long and rough. It's good that your dad is going to your sister. Thank goodness for that little face to keep you smiling! She looks such a joy!

Hi ladies! I'm just checking in so you know I'm alive and well. I have been coming here often and reading your posts and thinking of you, but can't seem to get my head straight to post myself! I do really love reading your posts so just thought I'd let you know that you are being helpful and entertaining even if you're not…

Waving back! Looks like you are busy! Hope you're finding some me time, and managing to keep safe. Suzy, I love a good aged Gouda. I think because it's so flavourful you eat less, or at least that's my theory until I start eating and can't stop! I also visited a local cheesemonger yesterday and picked up a couple of yummy…

Thank you for the advice, both of you. You are so right about habits, Suzy. Although it's not even a habit so much as a compulsion ... I'm not sure what's going on psychologically except that I'm stressed. Maybe just that craving for short term reward, and the evening is when I'm most tired and less able to resist. Thank…

Group hug! Gorgeous picture, Suzy, and yes, it did make me smile! Thank goodness for babies in all of this. They don't seem to be so badly affected and are just getting on with their job of bringing joy! A group Zoom would be fantastic, if we could ever co-ordinate it! I do have some contact with people on Zoom/Skype, and…

Happy New Year everyone and sorry for not checking in earlier! Thank you all for thinking about me and for checking I was OK! Things are just awful here in the UK and I've felt so stressed with it all. I am terrified at work. You have probably heard we have a new more infectious strain, so it's not even clear how much the…

Here it's usually kg and g for most things, but I think a lot of people still weigh themselves in stones and pounds. I weigh myself in pounds (not stones), and that's because I'm used to stones, but I don't automatically convert to pounds, so I get a number and don't really know what it means and therefore it doesn't have…

I'm so sorry about your elderly cat, Suzy. Fingers crossed for him, hoping he rallies round before next week. I would be absolutely devastated if it was my cat. Really just wishing the best for him, and thinking of you if the worst comes to the worst and you have to let him go. Good luck with the surgery as well. Well done…

I'm sorry, I haven't been checking in and am just catching up. I missed your challenge, Snoozie. I'll look at that later and read all the posts in detail. I'm so sorry about your mother-in-law, Suzy. It's an especially sad time to lose anyone close at the moment, I think. It sounds as if you as a family have handled it all…

Finally managed to post some pictures! These are just from walks from my house. The bottom one is looking out towards the water meadows. This was flooded, but now the water has gone down. Still a bit squelchy! The middle one is the river near my house, and the top one is a public garden with old ruins (Roman, medieval,…

Sounds like you are really busy at work, Gail. I suppose it's a distraction, if nothing else! I'm glad your hubby is OK. Well done on the gym, Suzy! And good that you have found some quieter times. I still haven't been back to my gym, and it's closing again tomorrow as we go into lockdown again. After telling you about my…

Stunning photos! What a beautiful place to walk! I love the fox. I have tried again to post one of mine - tried the phone and the web, but not doing well. I'm sure I've managed to do it before. I would like to show you my walking spot! It's not quite as lovely as yours, but there are trees, a river, fields, etc. I'm sorry…

But the studies cited challenge that view. The NHS in England are now paying for people to go on these very low calorie diets because of the evidence that it seems to help in the longer term. Yes, it goes against the grain of what we have thought for years! But I do think it's good that the thinking is open to change. 800…

Just starting here too. It feels quite mild for October. I love your photo, Suzy. I tried to upload one, but I failed. I live in a small city, just near a river that floods. Because of the flooding there's a wedge of the city that has been left as meadows to absorb flood water, and that's where I tend to walk. If I walk a…

Just checking in quickly - I thought I'd posted but it hasn't showed up so I must have lost it. Thank you for the laugh, Gail! I have that Police song stuck in my head now - and yes, to trying not to breathe! So funny!

Thank you again for your support. I honestly really appreciate it, although we have never met. I'm finding things difficult and I know you understand and care. Thank you. You are not being careless at all, Suzy. Quite the opposite! You have obviously thought it all through and doing it in the safest way possible. I'm…

Well done, Carol! It's great reading your updates - you sound so motivated, and are achieving so much! I hope things are OK with everybody else. Thanks for your support, Suzy and Snoozie, about my work. I'm back on the frontline now and finding it very difficult. I have been assessed as particularly high risk, but high…

How awful about the fires. I'm glad you don't have any loved ones involved, Suzy. I think I have been so overwhelmed with worrying about Covid that I forget there are still other awful things going on in the world, sadly. You seem to be making the most of your retirement, Carol. It's good that you got some travelling in…

What a shame about your hike being cancelled. No wonder it led to wine! I ended up drinking wine too last week for the first time in ages and of course ate a load of crap with it. Gained weight immediately and haven't been able to shake it. It feels like a few hours throw out a whole weeks worth of dieting! So frustrating!…

Oh, Suzy, she is the cutest thing ever! What a darling! Does she look like you or am I just imagining it? I'm so glad that you are having so much time with her. It's great that your foot is finally getting better, and you have a hike planned. It feels like it has been a long recovery! It will be an interesting challenge…

It was the person themselves who said that their Vitamin D levels were down to eating greens, and MIchael Mosley agreed, but I think was just being polite! But a little bit of misinformation! I can see how the dramatic results would be motivating for the participants. And I think they did take care to do it safely. OP, it…

I think it might be because these commercial diets like Slimming World lead people to think that there is some sort of magic to the diet itself, rather than it being essentially a method of calorie reduction. People talk about it being the diet where you can eat endless pasta or a whole chicken at a sitting, when really…

That's great news, Suzy! I'm trying to get motivation as well. I had a burst of it, and I'm jogging along OK, but with that feeling of "You mean I have to do it AGAIN today?". Lol! Like I feel it should be done and I can forget about it, instead of having to start again and do it every day. I feel the same about housework!

I've watched the last episode. They did manage to lose about a stone on average in three weeks and all improved in other measures of health. They did actually talk quite a lot about the long-term. I think part of the point of the rapid weight loss was that people (in the study they mentioned) tended to keep more off for…

Thinking of you and your family, Suzy. I hope it's not Covid. It does seem that the younger you are, the better, so hopefully your granddaughter will do the best out of all of you! Amazing that it takes a week for a test! I thought it was much quicker. I think we have quicker ones here, but maybe not so accurate - I don't…

It seems to be based largely from his Fast 800 book (which to be fair, does have some evidence behind it, although I think that was mostly with meal replacement products). Losing a stone in 21 days is ambitious but I think that for all of these diet programmes, they tend to choose obese participants who have been eating a…

I cheat and have milk in my tea, even when "fasting". Just a little thing that I'm not prepared to give up just at the moment. But I agree that it gets easier as you go on. Two meals sounds good, Carol. I've been doing that most days, and I'm now so used to going without breakfast! I get a bit hungry mid-morning but I…

Happy Birthday, Carol! Lovely to "see" you! Well done on the logging and exercising after all this time ... glad you are enjoying retirement! Hope you have a lovely day x x

That does sound painful, Suzy - I hope it helps! It's almost good news about the support needed, as at least there is something you can do about it! At least I hope so, even if it's special insoles or something that will help with being active. Well done on the prepping, Snooozie! I must have had some sort of connection to…